Oberlin College, a smallish hothouse of leftist folly about 35 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, is contemplating a complex set of rules designed to make the athletic department more hospitable for transgender people.

The new rules would mandate transgender sensitivity training for all coaches and athletic staff members, reports Campus Reform.

In addition, the new policy would replace all gender-specific pronouns  she, her, hers, he, her, hers  with plural equivalents they, them and theirs.

Student-athletes dont have to attend the required training sessions, but they would be strongly encouraged.

The policy is expected to be implemented in the fall of 2015, according to Oberlins student newspaper.

It is basically intended to sort of be a 101, Oberlin junior Emily Clarke, a member of the longwinded committee, told Campus Reform. We also talk about choice, privilege and agency in presentation of gender and pronouns and ends with trans-allyship dos and donts.

By the way, Clarke was once a member of the Oberlin Rhinos, the rugby team on campus for women and trans-inclusive people.

I wouldn’t send my child to be brainwashed at Oberlin even if it was free. My kids can go to any top-tier college (MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or a few special cases depending on major) in a major with excellent job prospects, or they can go to any college with in-state tuition in a major with excellent job prospects, or they can pay their own way. I won’t pay $50k plus a year for a boutique school where they don’t get my money’s worth, nor will I pay for a degree in Gender Studies, African American Studies, or any other nonsense field.

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posted on 05/12/2014 5:40:48 AM PDT
by Pollster1
("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)

When I was doing my graduate studies 5 years ago, I took a course where our professor specifically required that we use gender-neutral pronouns, and if we used gender-specific pronouns, we would be docked points.

It was the most ridiculous exercise in which I’d ever taken part. It was as easy as doing a Find/Replace for he/she/his/hers, etc. That didn’t matter, though. Her requirement was such that I wasn’t going to risk my studies because of her “gender queer” predilections.

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posted on 05/12/2014 5:52:26 AM PDT
by rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)

Eliminate the federal Department of Education and all federal funding of student loans. Market forces will immediately impact higher education resulting in the following:

1) A collapse in the cost of college tuition and fees at private institutions as students and parents run from private institutions to state schools.
2) Elite private institutions will lay off faculty and put underemployed high cost tenured professors to work in the classroom 8 hours per day instead of allowing them to run around spending time on bogus research.
3) The growth of technology enabled teaching will expand. Low cost distance learning classes provided by state universities will become much more popular.
4) Huge bureaucracies at most universities will be slashed.
5) To the degree that parents and students are paying the full cost of education instead of having it subsidized by Uncle Sam, they will demand more of the administration and faculty.
6) Academics and the media will scream.
7) The elitist academic “star” system, based on peer appraisal of writings and research, will go away and teaching skills will become highly valued.
8) Innovation and technology will change higher education for the better. Market forces will force institutions to adapt, become efficient, and deliver more value for less money. Who knows, there might actually be a renaissance in the teaching of subjects and skills truly valuable in the marketplace.

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posted on 05/12/2014 6:34:05 AM PDT
by Soul of the South
(Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)

Liberal logic - to avoid offending a person who is confused by his/her gender role - simply offend everyone else in order to neutralize the offense - redistribute feelings of oppression so everyone can feel oppressed.

Rush is right! Liberals want to redistribute wealth so everyone is poor. Same concept.

This is just another trap being set for the normal people. The bastards are changing the rules. Any normal person who uses a word that he has been using since he first starting talking is going to be accused of bias, and disciplined.

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posted on 05/12/2014 7:37:46 AM PDT
by I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)

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